I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can't play around for eight hours and see if something happens.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.